Da Capo

The instrumental at the end was the most interesting track of this album.

Another very uninteresting album on this list

No thank you

Grooooveyy baby. First things first She Comes in Colours is the Madonna song inspiration in Austin Powers. Good they liked a flute back in the day. I can picture the guy who played Hitler in the Producers singing these songs. Sooo pleasantly tripping along to side 1then the reaslation hits the last song is 19 minutes I assume all side 2. Well he feels alright Dadio

Ég varð mjög spenntur að sjá Love aftur eftir að hafa verið svo ánægður með Forever Changes plötuna þeirra. Svo hlusta ég og þetta er næstum því bara annað band. Ég varð svo leiður. Allt í einu voru þeir bara lélegir. Eða líklegra óæfðir því þessi plata kom út á undan

Well, it wasn't too interesting, but certainly not bad.... then the final song came....

There were some quirky aspects that made this interesting, but I wouldn't call it good.

Fine. Not remarkable.

A little bit confused why this is on the list. Second rate Rolling Stones/The Kinks with nothing particularly interesting. The final song tried to do something, but never quite made it.

oh well, side two is awful. On the whole, the subsequent record „Forever Changes“ is much stronger.

"what is this, a freak out?" - v. beauregarde

It was okay but I don't think I'll listen to this ever again. Uh. 2.

horrifying that this is what all psych rock sounds like to people

Not nearly as good as Forever Changes in my opinion.

I think this album would probably have been great if you had been there in 1966. In 2026 it doesn't quite hit the same, it sounds the way it was, they were trying to figure this whole thing out. Thanks for lending a hand in figuring things out but I'll never listen this again.

weird album. notable for being one of the first examples of jazz rock i guess, so it's definitely got a strong 60s vibe, but also it's not really anything? it's a weird album because it feels like it has all the makings of something solid but it just..... doesn't congeal. it's bizarrely weighted too between six short forgettable songs and then a twenty minute jam fest that leans heavy on the jazz which i decently enjoyed. it's hard not to appreciate some good jazz, even if it makes this album a baffling experience. i would have loved it if most of the album was not in my left ear though. might've been good.

Fighting between enjoying the music and hating the singing. The lyrics are mostly nonesense and honestly I just cannot get over the singing aspect but there is definitely stuff to like here. The flutes, saxophone, organ and jazz elements all are great. Also the mixing here is just... weird. It follows the 60s style of hard panning the instruments which can sometimes work but here it really loses a bit of punch. Luckily "revelation" is by far the best song on here in my opinion, because otherwise it would be incredibly painful at 18 minutes. Kinda suprised me for how short this album is, it still felt like it dragged.

This is not psychedelic rock. And it is very mediocre

I really found this quite unlikable. Can see what they were doing, but nope: not for me.

Not a fan of the vocals, instrumentally interesting in parts. For a 35 min album, its hard to get through Standout song: Que Vida!

Their second album. Psychedelic Rock / Pop. It's all very Hippy, happy clappy, quirky, poetry recital to a flute and organ. Short and sweet and not very memorable.

Noisey, word, not my vibe. Not sure why it made it here compared to other Love Albume?

A good friend and fellow 1001 challenger described this album as 'A bit tedious. ' Incorrect! This album is VERY tedious. It is true that "The coolest things about this album might be Neanderthal Han solo on the cover. "

A bit tedious.

I was vibing until the bad Doors imitation in the last song. Too bad as I really like what I heard of their other album.

It was okay. Just not for me

Da Crapo, amirite???

Man skulle nok have været der. 2,5

Det sagde mig ikke det store. Revelation tog mig cirka 45 minutter at gennemføre, fordi jeg havde brug for pauser undervejs - så er det altså til den gode side. 2**

Dat laatste nummer blijft maar duren...

No siento que sea necesariamente un mal álbum, tiene una muy buena instrumentalización y particularmente me gustó el uso de la flauta. El problema es que no lo siento como un todo, teniendo la flauta por momentos, pasando a rock-pop más puro después y por último esa innecesariamente larga canción de 18 minutos sobre como el chabón coge. Girl, escuchar tus gemidos un toque no está mal, ¿pero 18 minutos no te parece mucho? Además con unas letras muy bobas que no se sostienen con lo musical.

There were a number of the openings of these songs that I was quite enjoying, but then nearly all of them took a turn for the worse, normally when the singing started, or there was suddenly so much flute, or something else wacky occurred that completely changed the song in a way I didn’t enjoy, or that last track turned out to be 18 minutes long.

The songwriting isn’t bad here, I don’t think, but almost all of these songs I think would’ve been done better by a better band. Or in a different genre. I loved the start of revelation and would’ve happily listened to much much more of it if they were simply better musicians. Disappointing.

Favorite Song: Orange Skies

2.5 First 6 songs were alright but usually there was that something holding them back from being really good, maybe the vocals/lyrics? The last song was just ridiculously overindulgent, thought it was starting to drag on by minute 4 and then it lasted 15 more

meh

Okayish 60s pop rock.

5/10

Not for me

I found the lyrics trying. The music is ok

Die amerikanische Band Love um den Frontmann und Songwriter Arthur Lee nahm ihr zweites Album im September und Oktober 1966 in den RCA Studios an Hollywoods Sunset Boulevard auf. Produziert von Paul A. Rothchild, erschien Da Capo auf Elektra Records und verortete die Band stilistisch im Psychedelic Rock – ergänzt um Einflüsse aus Jazz, Bossa Nova, Baroque Pop und hartem Garagenrock. Für die Sessions erweiterte Lee die Besetzung auf sieben Musiker, darunter Tjay Cantrelli an Saxofon und Flöte sowie Michael Stuart am Schlagzeug, während Alban „Snoopy" Pfisterer vom Drumkit ans Cembalo und die Orgel wechselte. Side One ist nahezu makellos: „7 and 7 Is" eröffnet als komprimierte Explosion aus verzerrtem Gitarrenriff und Psychose, „Orange Skies" tritt mit Samba-Rhythmus und Flöte dagegen fast traumwandlerisch auf, und „She Comes in Colors" verdichtet alles zu einem barocken Kaleidoskop. Bryan MacLeans Beiträge zeigen dabei eine Sanftheit, die Lees kantigen Kompositionen ein elegantes Gegengewicht gibt. Das alles klingt nach einer Band, die genau weiß, wohin sie will – und dafür keine Vorbilder braucht. Die gesamte zweite Seite gehört „Revelation", einem fast 19-minütigen Jam, der Harpsichord-Blues, freien Jazz und kollektive Improvisation zu einem einzigen langen Strudel vereint. Man kann darin eine provokante Geste sehen oder eine strukturelle Schwäche – wahrscheinlich ist es beides zugleich. Kein anderes damalige Rockalbum hatte diesen Mut zur Dehnung, außer vielleicht Dylan, und auch der hätte es wohl kürzer geschnitten. Da Capo ist das Werk einer Band an der Schwelle zu ihrem Meisterwerk – roh, widersprüchlich und genau deshalb unverzichtbar.

Dejlig kort - utrolig kedelig

Not a clue! Short little guy and nothing has really stood out to me. Final song is genuinely endless. Sometimes in a good way sometimes with annoying sounds

A few songs I’ve heard before, but nothing special. 1960’s psychedelic.

A side? Stellar, B-side? A nice 2 minute song stretched to 18 minutes for no reason, I dont get why this is on the list.

Mehed olid vast seeni teinud natuke. Veider blues, mis vahepeal ei jõua kuhugi. Pole päris minu teema, aga oli OK taustakuulamine. 2.4/5

Seven and Seven Is (mediocre version) and a lot of hippie nonsense.

Far too shaggy for me — especially the last track. Had a few solid tracks in the beginning but I didn’t love it. It’s no Forever Changes, that’s for sure.

So this is the predecessor to “Forever Changes.” Let’s see if it holds any hints to the greatness of that album. - So the A side is really solid baroque psychedelia, clearly from San Francisco in the mid 1960s. I particularly liked "Orange Skies," "7 and 7 is," and "She Comes in Colors." The issue with the record is the B side. It's hot garbage. The band apparently hated it too, which makes sense - it's pretty embarrassing. My only explanation for this track being on the record is that they just didn't have any other material and needed to release the record ASAP. Otherwise what the hell is it doing here. "Revelation" drags this thing from a solid 3/4 down to TWO STARS

cool, more forgettable 60s music. this one was actually going well until the NINETEEN MINUTE CLOSING TRACK THAT IS MORE THAN HALF THE ALBUM'S RUNTIME. two stars. favorites: orange skies, seven and seven is

While quite inventive for 1966, with everything from jazz to rock to psych flourishes as well as an 18-min track jammed into the album’s 36-min runtime, ultimately I just don’t really want to hear this music. I’m especially turned off by the lead’s gruff growl delivery. His rough delivery of sexual lyrics is decidedly unsexy, too.

This album is a bit of a disjointed mess, especially the improvisation-heavy final track. It's an interesting mess, at least, and I think that it was kind of fun even if it is ultimately forgettable. Favorite track: "She Comes in Colors"

Not my thing. 18 minute song! woahz

Love the flute on Orange Skies. That is all.

Goofy flower-child fluff for the most part. Seven and Seven Is was my favorite track. Revelations had some good ideas but I was turned off by the interminable saxophone solo.

This was just ok for me. In reality I’d go closer to a 2.5, but I just found it to be kind of boring. There is much more interesting Psychedelic rock in this era that is ultimately just better.

This is some pretty heady (at least ephemeral) stuff. Completely of its era, the nearly 19 minute track capping things off saves it, but otherwise it's sort of just background music in a 60's biopic.

This album is listed as psychedelic rock, but there’s some early punk, blues, surf rock and folk mixed in. Unfortunately, the lead singer’s vocal style makes every song sound like a joke. It makes the entire album feel satirical and goofy.

2.5. It’s not a 2 but don’t think it’s good enough to be a 3.

No es un album para mí

Nothing on this album really captured me. The vocal delivery kept runining the experience every time I got close to being engaged. There’s clearly some skilled musicianship here but to me it’s just not very interesting.

I was ready to hate this, but I don't and I'm struggling to articulate exactly why. It's very raw and not great, you'll get no argument from me on that. But they're going for something interesting here. It's rhythmically interesting... to a fault. I like the experimentation but it's a miss, like they forgot to ground the syncopation and time signature changes with a coherent groove. The vocals are bold and adventurous... again to a fault. I can say much the same about the instrumental work and orchestration. It's like they strive for interesting musical things to experiment with and overshoot each time. I can't help but appreciate the effort and enthusiasm, but there's really no arguing that the execution isn't quite there. And then they close it with a John Lee Hooker-style endless boogie jam session that's just... idk, let's just say that I'm glad the Allman Brothers figured out how to do that well so we didn't just go into the 70s with THAT as the standard. It's like these guys tried to do what bands like KGLW and Chicano Batman would later perfect, but these dudes just didn't quite know how to pull it off. I feel like I even hear Motorhead and Led Zeppelin in here sometimes. This is the unrefined raw material that someone else could come along later and turn into something good. It's like looking at a car from the 1910s and going "wow, this really sucks, they clearly hadn't figured out how to make a good car yet", but you have to have some respect for the pioneers who had no clue what they were doing, but tried anyway. Also, flute everywhere? That's a choice.

Album 68 Top 3 "favorites" off the album: Orange Skies, Stephanie Knows Who, The Castle I don't know, guys...for once, I'm not crazy about all the sax and flute and such. I'm just chalking it up to, "I don't like psychedelic rock" and moving on. I was already worn out by the end and then got steamrolled by an 18 minute track as the finale. It is what it is, I guess. I don't have the energy to go back and listen to it all again.

Well that was boring. I can at least see how considering when this album came out that it was pretty ahead of the curve, but listening to it now it does just feel like another example from the endless list of "they walked so that others could run."

This went into the “2” file in my mind by second track. I tried to be open minded but unfortunately nothing happened to change that opinion. In fact, it was cemented into “2” status with the last track clocking in at 19 min. It’s hard to pull off an album side length psychedelic track, that is, unless your bands name is Iron Butterfly.

Another example of an album that shouldn’t be on here and is taking up space for another deserving band. There’s many WTF moments here from forced unnecessary production decisions (simply throwing in sleigh bells and harpsichord outros) to a ridiculous 18 minute final track jam of drivel. The only thing keeping this out of lowest ranking for me is the song “7 and 7 is” which is performed way better by artists like the Sidewinders and Billy Bragg.

I was intrigued at the beginning, before this one settled firmly in 2 territory.

What the hell was going on in the 60s!?! This album sounds like drugs. And can’t say I enjoyed it. You know what else I don’t enjoy. Flutes. My son at one point wanted to play the flute. I steered him away from this. Does that make me a bad parent? It will be funny when he rebels….by playing the flute. Anyways, this gets two “mehs”

This album is fine, but rounding down based on that dumb 17 minute jam band shit at the end. 2.5/5

Even the original book admits that the 20 minute pointless jam session of side 2, 'Revelation' is 'frankly only worth listening to once'. So we're here judging six really pretty middling psych rock tracks from side 1. I don't see the appeal at all, and I actually tend to like psych rock.

Feels like they were just messing around the whole albums. When the singing was good the music was bad and when the singing was bad the music was good. The 18 min track was a bit overindulgent but got better towards the end. A very odd listening experience.

Honestly unmemorable. I didn't write notes yesterday about this album and now nothing sticks out. Not a great sign but also not so terrible that I remember that either. Meh.

Not every bit of psychedelic experimentation was a winner, this being a good example 2.5*

While it was ok for the most part, it will not stay in my mind whatsoever.

I actually kinda liked the last 18 minute long song the most, even though it got weird in some parts.

Starts strong, loses me very quickly when it devolves into noises and grunts 2/5

fine

I was coming around on this album until I realised that Spotify was just autoplaying music long after the album finished. This is a bit too corny for me, even by the standards of the era.

I wasn’t familiar with this band and I don’t love them. Didn’t finish album.

I really enjoyed the album "Forever Changes". A hidden gem that I didn't know even existed. "Da Capo" is the album released before "Forever Changes." I didn't really enjoy this album as much... it's quite different. I also didn't like that there was an 18+ minute Side B of just one track. If it was Genesis "Supper's Ready" I would be praising the song. This was not worthy of 18+ minutes.

Solid, nothing too crazy but liked

Eh. I feel like it's a product of it's time. Not bad, but albums that are similar and/or came out around it I'm sure are better

Damn hippies

Zappa's parodies of this era were better albums than the targets themselves by a wide margin.

4/10 It was silly and fun for the first few songs, but really fell off with that last track.

The cutting room floor is there for a reason. Use it.

So this one was one of those albums where you go "Hmm what happened here?" There were some ok songs in this one but for most of them at some point I was wondering are the musicians even trying to perform their best. The last song was such a rollercoaster, it started good and decended in to ok and then to what am I listening territory. Maybe without the last song this could've been 2,5 but with it it is 1,5 and I'll round up.

Tried

Eh

Very dated. Very 1960s. It should have stayed in the 60s. Too psychedelic for my tastes

Didn't listen to all of this album. Not really into it.

Just when you thought the 60s couldn't get more self indulgent along comes Love with what appears to be a 17 minute song about oral sex. The rest, which is, for a mercy, a further 19 minutes, is full of mind expanding poetry and music that goes from flute driven folk to garage grunge. Not very good now and I suspect not very good back in the day.

Not terrible, but nothing special. Sounds like a lot of bands from this time. So I will go with a 2.5, and round down.

Kinda crap.

Another one by these guys. Less lovely than the other one I think.

2 y haciéndole un favor

It's interesting, but I don't really like it all that much. The first couple songs were fine, but the last one is just way too long while not being all that great.

Like wow, man. There are a couple of half decent tunes, then we come to Revelation which should have ensured that this album was consigned to the dustbin of history.

Ahead of its time! In that I thought obnoxious 18 minute single tracks came much later.

An American band trying to find their place between The Stones, The Beatles, The Doors and The Who. Nice try, but just a try.

Like the originality, I guess, but why would you listen to this when The Doors and The The Raconteurs are also available?

Very 60s, not something I'd listen to again. I had to look up the singer on Que Vida because I imagined Janice from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

Why is almost all American Psychedelia so bad?

pop de los 60, tranquilo, nada muy allá

Judging by the variety of instruments and weirdness of the lyrics I think we can safely say this band’s creativity may been fuelled by some illegal drugs. Very 60s sounding but too juvenile and offbeat.

I forgot about this album the minute I finished listening to it.

On the road so can't look them up. But they aren't very good. The only song that had promise was Revelation, but they did the whole, "let's make this an 18 minute monstrosity" thing.

That was weird.

The instrumentation is so unbelievably up my street. But I am so unbelievably fed up with bad singers ruining albums on this list.

Not my style. ★★

I quite like the flute, pretty sure it was quite a popular instrument around this time for some reason. The singer (maybe multiple) are quite mixed, some parts are quite good and some are actually horrible, like on the first and last song. The guitar stuff is quite interesting, probably more similar to the jangly stuff on the Byrds than some other rock guitar sounds of this era. They keys parts are quite cool as well I guess. Its pretty clean that this is a very rushed album, and that they didn't have enough material, case and point the last song, which just KEEPS GOING.... Its like that one Rolling Stones song, but he's just yelling. There's just not enough stuff here for it to be even slightly good. Favourite songs: iQue Vida!, seven and seven is, she comes in colors. Overall around 4/10

There is nothing to love about Love. I've had more than 2 weeks now of very average albums, this is the most uninspiring run.

01) Stephanie Knows Who - 6,5 02) Orange Skies - 6,5 03) ¡Que Vida! - 5,5 04) 7 and 7 Is - 6,5 05) The Castle - 6,0 06) She Comes in Colors - 6,5 07) Revelation - 4,0 TOTAL: 5,93 (59/100) Current ranking: 604/753

It grew on me as I listened, but I still wasn't really struck by it

this one is not too remarkable Will I listen to again: 3%

I loved and hated this album all at once. Scratch that - the last song sounds like someone jumping between awful radio stations Not one to listen to at work - not NSFW, but just a lot of side-eyes and “what the fuck is this?”

If ever there was an album of two halves … The first half of this comprises of six songs that, whilst not as good as anything on Forever Changes, show flashes of some of the greatness that would come. The second half, though … whew, it’s like parody Doors, just meandering boring bullshit and completely shafts the record. I can’t imagine many people flipped the LP more than once.

Was war dieses 18-minütige, kakophonische Chaos am Ende? Mehr ist davon nicht hängen geblieben.

Doors Light.

Dated, sort of goofy, such a clear distillation of 60s rock that it almost feels like a parody of itself (including the way-too-long last track)

It’s like a grab bag of everything about “the 60s”. For 1966 it was very in the thick of psychedelica and there are some neat moments (the last song is the best, honestly - Zeppelin flavor and cool guitar work). But, it’s a lot of flute and a lot of harpsichord and pretty tough to get through the whole thing. Foundational perhaps but not necessarily super enjoyable in 2025.

Uh. No thank you?

Meh. I didn't hate it, didn't really like it that much either.

The nicest thing I can say about this album is that it’s short (and, begrudgingly, that it’s a bit unusual). I can see the jazz influence here, and even the early beginnings of punk, and normally those elements would be enough to make me enjoy the album at least a little. Here, though, it didn’t work, and the whole thing just didn’t sit right with me.

Generic late 60s rock, thought the first songs gave me some hope with its sinister undertones it kinda got boring

I enjoyed their other album on here, so I was looking forward to this, but it's nowhere near the quality of Forever Changes. There's nothing really interesting about this album - it's like if they just noodled around a bit in the studio and called it a day.

okay i read about this album while listening to the first song and the first song was okay and the internet didn’t say anything too great about it so im going to speed run it

Wow I love this

I always feel like I should like Love more. I know that sounds hacky, but it’s true. They’ve got all the components of bands I dig, but, at least for their albums represented on this list, I’m just not really connecting.

Absolutely all over the place - very 60s and quite bonkers, psychedelia, jangly instrumentation. Did not love.

A couple of good garage rock songs. But the baroque stuff is just really not my thing. I enjoyed the other Love album on the list more.

2.5/5

2.5

The strange style of this album did not resonate with me very much in certain parts. And perhaps psychedelia was quite new at the time but this does not feel very psychedelic at all. The voice was occasionally annoying to me. Seven and seven is was my favourite track on this album. I did enjoy the bass and the noodling on the guitar at the end. I hated the use of the harpsichord, flute and whatever else they used. It gave me immediate heartburn and made me feel like I was watching a medieval play on acid. Maybe that’s where the psychedelic aspect of this album comes in.

This is just a psychedelic mess. I didn't "love" it.

меньше сотни послушала, а понять не могу зачем столько одинаковых рок блюз альбомов

Most of it felt like a warm-up act for something better. That said, “Seven and Seven Is” absolutely rips—an explosive, proto-punk banger that stands head and shoulders above the rest.

5/10

What an interestint blend of genres. I respect how they mixed rock, jazz and some Bach. However, apart from the last long track it was not my cup of tea.

Not my jam.

Not a huge fan of this one. Side A is decent but I just don't love this style of 60s pop. The production is weak and performances loose. Side B being an extended jam doesn't help

There's a few genres on offer here. There's a bit of folk, some punk, some psychedelic rock, some pop. It's actually quite surprising considering this came out in 1966. The last track is 19 minutes long, which isn't a problem in itself, but it is when a vast majority of the middle section is like what bands do at live shows. It's just endless noodling and wankery as if the band members are being introduced by the lead singer. Honestly a good 15 minutes of this track is meandering shite. Overall a somewhat interesting album which maybe would have gotten a three or four from me if it was 1966, but today it's getting a two.

OMG - ugh. Sorry - -just doesn't do it.

I accidentally gave Simon and Garfunkle's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme a 3 instead of a 4 because I was rushing so hard to give this one a 2/5. Thank god I never have to listen to this again. Grunting, boring, dry.

It was ok though I'm not sure why it would be included on this list. Nothing stands out

It's nowhere near as good as Forever Changes.

why the fuck is there so much flute? it feels like vocals are for one song and the instrumentals are for a completely different one.

Kuka ihme haluaa kuunnella kaikki nämä biisit kaksi kertaa putkeen? Välillä meni toisesta korvasta sisään toisesta ulos, välillä kamalaa huutamista, välillä hirveitä huuliharppuja tai mitälie.

Taas meni varmaan puolet heti toisesta korvasta ulos kun ei ollut kovinkaan kiinnostava. Välillä oli ihan hyviä melodioita mutta ei kuitenkaan napannu. Vika biisi täyttä sontaa. Piti ite säädellä äänenvoimakkuutta että välillä kuulis jotain kun tuli hiljasta ja sitten välillä laulaja vaan huusi.

Wild! 15 minutes for the first 6 songs, 20 minutes for the last song! Baroque rock, very flowery and orchestral, with lots of different genres fused. I think albums like this are a little much, but I did enjoy it!

60

the soundtrack to vanilla pudding

Already tried this one. Should like love but don’t

A little too jam band. Short album, but felt much longer.

I can do long songs but the 20 minute guitar solo on this was not where it's at. You're not Jimi Hendrix twin. Otherwise decent Psychadelic rock, but literally only 20 minutes of it Imma go 5.8/10

Sounds like exactly the thing that would've topped the British charts back in the hallucinogen-drenched 60s. I'm a little surprised it didn't. In fact, quite the opposite is happening in the present day: none of the songs come close to breaking a million streams on Spotify, suggesting that modern audiences don't appreciate this album's existence very much. And longevity is, of course, a very real part of what makes music good. The style is reminiscent of the Doors without Manzarek's keyboard/organ and with an uncanny-valley Morrison soundalike (but still much weaker). And, of course, without the hooks, riffs, or pizzazz that made the Doors so successful. The compositions are *okay* but nothing that inspiring. Every song on side 1 is decent, except for The Castle, which kind of spins its wheels in the mud without getting anywhere. The 19-minute Revelation, taking up the entirety of side 2, is a pretty feeble attempt at a proto-prog jam session that never really settles on any good hooks, chord progressions, or anything worth sitting through a second listen. I'll stick to my Pink Floyd prog epics. 2/5 Key tracks: Orange Skies, Seven and Seven Is

Really not sure how this made the list. Being generous, its pretty average fair at best, and it doesn't seem to be any more ground breaking than any other record of the time.

Half of this is dross, but half of it is kind of fun. I think the weak parts do outweigh the good parts, though, so the album as a whole is disjointed and not consistent.

2.5 - weird psychedelic. Not great not terrible

Da Capo This was a bit of a struggle, the whimsical psychedelia not really piquing my interest, all just feeling a bit trite. Forever Changes I liked, and gave it a 4, but nothing on here is as good as anything on that, the only thing I really liked was the long but enjoyable Revelation, which had a nice groove and some decent guitar lines and runs. It also doesn’t sound quite as good as I remember FC sounding, the drums feel a little insubstantial in the left channel and some of the mixing seems a bit scattergun, although there is a nice, round bass tone. I will revisit Forever Changes, but I don’t think I’ll come back to this, the winsomeness just overpowers it for me 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Playlist submission: Revelation

Less sophisticated than their eponymous album, and confined within the trappings of contrived 60s pyschedelia, half the time it gets lost up its own psychedelic pop fundament. A harpsichord here, a flute there, a change to waltz timing over there. Why are there so many of them on the cover? Does it really takes that many grave looking fellows to produce such whimsy? And I've just read the organist is called Alban Pfisterer. I'm sure there's a joke there about being a Pfisterer and having a silent p. Maybe this was an important one for the time. It's certainly warming up for Forever Changes. As an album it doesn't hang together. But some interesting moments.

It was genuinely fine until the last track which felt like being psychologically tortured. Hell no.

There are signs of a great album to come. But for now, it's mostly uninspiring rock music.

I really like the beats and music in about half the album, but the song/melodies are bland at best and some more excessive parts drag this album down for me. Feel like there is talent and potential here but not much more than that. Sound feels very 60's and ultimately nothing special. I feel like there could be another album from this band that's fantastic, but as it stands I didn't really like any of the songs. It wasn't terrible or anything, but I have no desire to listen again and will probably have forgotten this album in a few days.

Doors rip-offs and a whole side with a bad jam recording.

I didn’t enjoy the shitty doors

Squeaky sound and vibes

Nothing great. It was different but not mindblowing. At least now I know who Madonna ripped off the beautiful stranger song from

Meh.

The vocals ruin this music, otherwise I may have liked this

Orange Skies // Seven and Seven Is // 2.5/5

Sounds like the doors, with the harpsichord or whatever. Also a little too much flute. Guys voice and the flute got pretty annoying, and album ended with an 18 minute song that was not good. I wonder if psychedelic rock is not for me.

A mediocre offering ruined by a terrible side B.

love me some 60's music but this was a miss. Trying to sound like other artists?

Great band, this album was some classic psychedelia and had its moments, but it didn't grab me the way some of Love's biggest hits on Reel to Real and Forever Changes do. The longform jam tracks felt over-indulgent but maybe that's just my bias.

Pretty mid? Wasn't sure what to make of the last track taking up half of the entire album length. Tracks to Track: Que Vida

Yeah. Um. I'm not very familiar with Love. I knew Alone Again Or and that's it. This album starts out with 2 songs I don't like, but are pretty good for their separate genres. Que Vida is a children's song that mentions killing your brother Seven and Seven Is could be a Murphy"s Law song if they came from SoCal and not NYC. Revelation starts out like a Chris Issac Forever Blue era song and quickly deteriorates into a Doors song. I'll probably never listen to this album again

It's like a summary of all the psychedelic tropes that were big in the 60's, but done just poorly enough to be forgetten by everyone, except the compilers of this list apparently.

A bunch of noise.

Turns out I hate Love

Hippie shite

meeh

Artful hippie stuff I guess.

Maybe I’m missing the nuance of the genre but these type of albums are over represented in the list. 2.14

Generally mediocre but the unnecessarily long final track drags this down even further. More to not like than like

I didn’t hate it, but don’t lure me into a false sense of security with tight, under 3-minute tracks from the get go, only to throw a 17min track in at the end.

There are few things that will really put me off an album as much as the phrase "19 minute jam session". I do not understand the mindset that creates a 7 song, 36 minute album but chooses to dedicate 19 of those minutes to the final track. Other than that monstrosity, we got a bit of harpsichord (including a bit of jumpscare harpsichord right at the end) which was my first so far on this project and some perfectly meh songs. 2/5

Odd mix

Not sure why they're here - were they the first psychaledic band? Others have done this better, even if they came later. 2/5

Beat, 1966 -> 2

Bit rubbish

2/5 Not really my type but one chill song

The songs were very chill and a bit meh until the "Seven and Seven Is" song, which seems to have the most listens, where they just turned into a whole different band. Overall, pretty meh stuff, it's alright but not really that great, it just sounds a bit empty. I understand that this is a pretty old album, so given that, this must've been pretty cool back in the day.

At first I was going to give this three starts. It sounded to me like psychedelic rock with a bit of a punky flair to the vocals but ultimately pretty uninteresting and uninspired. I liked that the songs were short and to the point. Then I was subjected to the song Revelation, an almost 20 minute jam sesh that was so self indulgent I had to pause a few times to get through it. Standouts: None for me Rating: 2/5

Immediately forgettable

3/10…psychedelic rock / baroque pop

It was fine, I guess. I don’t think it does anything that others didn’t do better.

Most of the songs had good music, but the singing was just ok. Orange Skies was a breakout hit. The rest was just mediocre. Best song: Orange Skies

Very mid forgettable rock; watered down clone of 60s bands that are actually good

Not my kind of music, sorry! After a sequence of great albums, it was some how difficult for me to go through this. But, as I stated, this is a purely subjective opinion, I'm not into this particular kind of music, this definitely didn't stuck with me

A pretty OK album. It's pretty forgettable outside of that beautiful flue in Orange Skies. Not enough to round it up. 2.4/5 - > 2/5

The music is more interesting than the lyrics and I can see how that could have inspired later artists. I like the rythmic changes and the improv part. The flute is a bit much though.

Good side it is not that long. free forms and jamming … really can’t remember a thing. I prefer jazz when it’s jazz

💔

Another psych rock album, another 2.

Is this our first jazz flute album? I wish the singer could be a little more in tune. The last song go really annoying in parts.

Yeah no thanks I’m good

This one had a few good parts and mostly not good parts. A number of tracks sounded dated to me. Some of the songs were decent, but there were also some that were just bad. Unfortunately for Love, this is about albums as a whole, not just the certain songs on them that are good. I think the album was dragged down by the mellow-ness of certain tracks. When the songs had more bite to them, they were much better. It was also an interesting choice to have the last song be 18+ minutes of jamming. It was an enjoyable jam, but it kinda seemed like they just needed to fill space instead of having a whole album's worth of songs. As a whole, it wasn't great. I don't think there are many situations that I would choose to put this album on and enjoy it all the way through. The couple songs that were good were good though. Overall: 2.25/5

Interesting enough. Would I listen again? Probably not.

I like some thing about this but I also find it very annoying.

Wasn't a huge fan of this one.

I was soooo excited, so happy, so hopeful that this record could finish the tightrope walk that it set out on. The first few songs were unique and defied a lot of the 60’s rock tropes of the time. Thoughtful lyrics about how one death leads to another life, etc. I was particularly a fan of “Orange Skies” for how simple and happy it was - the flute was a nice touch. But it all had to come crashing down eventually. “Revelation” closes the album in such a needless manner. No, this isn’t a noteworthy opus just because it’s over ten minutes and features a bunch of instrumental solos. It’s a bit boring, the looped melody it lulls into is a bit derivative. Who felt the need to do this? I’m having a hard time getting the hype for this record.

60s vibe but there are so many that are better…

This was a tedious listen.

2/5

It’s very earnest, but unfortunately it’s too “Summer of Love” for me - a bit too disjointed and esoteric. I don’t love it. Standout track is: “Revelation”

This one just didn’t do it for me.

Not really my bag anyway but felt like this straddled a halfway house. Semi psychedelic whilst remaining bland, would’ve preferred if they’d pushed the psych further

- tynt gjennomført saxofon - «que vida» var ok. Ikke minneverdig - slutta å høre etter «seven and seven is»

I thought that was a sheep in Revelation

I guess my dad was right. Love is overrated.

An album of some pretty dreadful tracks with a few moments of interest. She Comes In Colors was probably my highlight, and The Castle was my low point. I guess I feel that, for the bits I liked, other artists just did it better. Eg: the last track? No need for 18 minutes - just listen to LA Woman. Flutes? Try Peter Gabriel. Etc.

It got better, but it wasn't good. 2.

This doesn't seem very special or innovative. Apparently it wasn't the group's best album either. Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 1/5

interesting that the album had a mono and stereo version within the same album, found that fascinating. I always find 60's psychedelic rock a bit boring, i love the genre 20 years later when it's more effect heavy but it just sounds like rock. nice drumming tho.

2 stars - nothing super exceptional here IMO

Yeah, no. Crunchy hippie psych isnt my bag. Thanks

This was heading for a solid 3, even if just for interest's sake. Then side 2 happened. 2/5.

This was rough! I started off kinda indifferent but by the end, I wanted to turn it off and the last track was nails on chalkboard.

Why have I gotten five Neil Young albums and at least ten albums that sound just like this while doing this project. 1001 albums for the whole globe????? I needed this one???? 1.5

EH

Love is a band (like The Cure) where I like a lot of their songs, but I just can't stand their albums. A couple of good tracks here though.

didnt fuck with that

It wasn’t bad music but I can’t say I honestly enjoyed this album

The band called Love. The glory days when all band names weren’t taken. You could go out there and be the uhhh Eagles or some shit and nobody batted an eye. Did they exist then? Whatever. Everybody say Love, because we’re back in the groovy 60’s, a time where freedom of expression and creativity were encouraged, and a time where all the people who hate those ideals were born. These guys think they’re so cool. Especially the pre-cursor to Han Solo on the cover there. You know they took 5000 shots to get the wistful white guy’s cigarette smoke billowing just right. Interesting jazz fusion. Did I use that genre correctly? Too many things to learn in this wide world. Genre fusions will have to wait until I am financially able to retire. According to extrapolations in current world trends, that appears to be 279 years in the future. Splendid. This is boring. Overblown. Overdramatic. Not for me. Sesame Street interlude. This vocalist ain’t it pal. He sounds like the puppeteer behind “Ernie” not quite doing the voice. ¡Que Morte! FOURTEEN I GOT IT. This one was more fun. Blasting throughout and a cool little solo to finish. I close my eyes. Only for a moment, then the moment’s gone. Oh. We’re not in Kansas anymore. Yeah this backs suffers from shitty vocalist disease. Are you or a loved one suffering with SVD? Do you have an airtight musical ensemble only to be dashed by an egomaniac who believes they can sing? You may be entitled to nothing, please quit or form an instrumental band. There’s too much music. Thank you. I seriously hate the vocals. Ingenious flower child spotted. Even the harpsichord is making me mad. HARPSICHORDS SHOULD NOT ELICIT ANGER. Oh. Wait. Yes they should. THOU HAST BEEN STRICKEN BY THUNDER. Into the long jam. Hey ladies, we did acid once. Now that the mean jokes are out of the way, the yelling is far better than any singing this guy can pull together. Stick there. Nice cool jazz closer as well. This song is a saving grace in many ways. This whole album could’ve just been this. Should’ve, even. This album is interesting in that we listened to Small Faces yesterday. Two psychedelic albums from the same year back to back provided me with some knowledge about myself. Particularly what I enjoy in creative media. This is a perfect display of two distinct types of creatives. The first being people who are fun and expressive and adept at producing odd ideas from the most vibrant parts of a fertile brain (Small Faces). The other type, which “Da Capo” seems to emanate from, are people whose expression is carefully curated to appeal to somebody. I can only imagine that somebody is a liberated woman from the 60’s. I prefer the former. This entire album screams pretentiousness. The vocalist clearly believes he is some mystical flower child or is at least playing that persona to score some chicks. There are some cool moments here and there, especially on the last track, and the influence on The Doors is cool to hear, but overall Da Capo should be called Da Low Ranking Military Officer Who Tries Too Hard And Ultimately Will Never Be Capo. 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Seven and Seven Is, Revelation

It ended strong, but this was not a good album.

Whimsical and weird, but not really my thing

Nothing here that really interests me.

Bad recording , but first half is pretty good. A little too much flute for my taste..

⭐⭐ – – – 1[.9] of 5 stars. For me, this felt like quite the strange mix of folks-y and psychedelic music, it's a kind of experimentation that just didn't resonate or intrigue me. The instrumentals throughout this album are really good, but the vocals are just NOT IT, in my opinion. I really did not like the first track, "Stephanie Knows Who," and the track "Orange Skies" and could've been a nice ballad-y song, until the vocals entered. "7 And 7 Is" is probably the only track where the vocals somewhat fit the song; I kinda like the intensity on that one. I actually really enjoyed some of the instrumental breaks on the final song, but man, those vocals just ruin it. The rest of the album just feels somewhat uneasy to me. Favourites: Orange Skies, Revelation⭐ Dislikes: Stephanie Knows Who, The Castle, She Comes in Colours.

When I was presented with the cover, i had to suppress a groan. Another 60s band where the band poses together, preferable in nature. But I try not to let a cover guide my opinion. Sadly it was just as expected: nothing special. Ive heard so many albums like this so far.

Nothing that I enjoyed.

I was ready to give this a 3 until the last track…and now it gets a 2.

This was coasting to a 3–fine, nothing special, but not bad either—until that last song, which was interminable.

Gear: Moondrop Variations Artwork: 🖼️🪨🌲 Production: 🧏‍♂️📏💩 Music: ☮️🌈🌀 Rating: 🕊️(🕊️)/5

meh NNN

Es ist ja hm ganz okay so ja, und dann ist das letzte Lied einfach 19 Minuten lang

This was an OK album. 60's "psychedelia". Nothing really jumped out at me but I did not hate it. The singer's vocals were a little grating as the album went on. Musicianship was okay too - what I would expect from the time period.

Interesting rhythms Nice lyrics

Boring psyche rock

- kurz aber knackig, gefiel mir okay-ish - 2,25-2,5/5

Not my cup of dated 60's tea..

Re-listened to Forever Changes before this - that's good, albeit maybe slightly overrated. But this..much less so. Was heading for 1* but somehow, someway, I connected a little with the side-long last song that I had been dreading..

Not too bad a of a listen actually. Also nothing to rave about though. Definitely ahead of their time. But there is also no need to make a song that goes for 19 mins especially that bad. last song brought the star count from 3 to 2.

A sort of odd 60's album that I've already forgotten.

Psychedelic rock can be very hit or miss with me. This album is both. Some songs are catchy and I enjoy them. Others are far to out there for me.

Nothing stood out and then the never ending final song sunk whatever meager positive feelings and goodwill the record had managed to generate.

bad to listen to sometimes

Da Capo is rubbish, it's not outright offensive but it's just a whole load of nothing, we've had far too much forgettable 60s psychedelic soft rock on here and almost none of it was worth including. Hard to scrape a 2 from it, maybe just gets there because it's short enough to get through quickly.

Yeah, nothing really to this, gentle psychedelia with nothing that grabs you or differentiates it from the rest of that kind of nonsense we've had. 2/5.

Kind of boring. Not a bad album, just not very interesting. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Very forgettable 60s psychedelic rock, dabbling into early punk and blues rock at times. Meh. I liked the album's composition 2.5/5

The music of a bunch of musicians who dropped acid and went to a Ren Faire.

The songs I like are not these songs. I guess these songs are too psychedelic for me at this stage of my life. Maybe someday…

Psychedelic rock by the numbers. 2/5

Well, quite a contrast to Guns N' Roses, I must say. I know Love was pretty popular back in the day, but this album at least doesn't seem to have aged very well, perhaps because it's all over the map stylewise, waaay too much flute, and a strange choice to devote half the album to one song. "Seven and seven is" is a truly interesting proto-surfer-punk-ish song, and "Stephanie knows who" has some promise, but that's not enough to justify an album (even one as considerately brief as it is). And all the shenanigans of the band trying to get out of the Elektra contracts doesn't really add to the mystery or mystique, I must say (but they definitely benefited from getting the Doors producer on this album, especially with "Revelation"). Given that we're also getting what seems to be universally considered Love's (sole) masterpiece, "Forever Changes", I wonder why this album is even here?

sorry Love, didn't love it

2.5/5

Overall, fine. Nothing crazily stood out to me. Listening to more Love, they have much better stuff than this album. Not the biggest fan of the vocals, but instrumentally was impressed at points.

Feels like some pretty standard psychedelic rock. Not sure how I feel about the vocalist, but I wasn't overly inspiresmf by the album. It's alright at times, not at others. 2.5 would be my chosen score if I could choose that.

Nah. Dated.

Unfortunately, I found this album boring and uninteresting. I guess I can see how it would have made a splash, at the time, but I actively disliked it.

The top comments kinda cover it... looking back on my previous review of this band (another they have 2 albums on here??) I definitely didn't enjoy this much. It was just... there.

Didn’t do much for me really. I found this album unremarkable in every way, even though I feel like I might like it better after a few more listening sessions. Pretty forgettable if I am being honest. 2.3/5, did not find a single highlight that I might remember.

Minus one star for 'England town'

Bad

"Stephanie Knows Who" was a pretty cool and energetic opener. However, "Da Capo" crashed after that and never came back. Total dud after that first track. This album was not as good as "Forever Changes," and even that one was just ok.

I can definitely hear the jazz and psychedelic influences here. Stereo was novel. Cool. I hear the guitar on the right channel and drums on the left. The issue is that they don’t seem to be keeping time together. It’s all too loosey goosey. Bad bad jazz influence. Cool, but to listen to.

Not a bad album, just not my jam

Tidlig garage/psyk rock, sikkert innovativt, men sgu ikke vildt spændende nu

What is this discordant psychedelic folk trash? Is this a satire they forgot to make the movie for? If I had just landed on Earth, and this was my introduction to music, I'd head back to whatever music-less galaxy I came from without taking anything with me except deep regret and the satisfaction that none of these songs were catchy enough to be ear worms.

Usually with older bands on this list I’ve at least heard some of their work, even if I’m not familiar with their full catalogue. With Love, I didn’t know a single song. This album is all over the place - folk rock, jazz, baroque and the last song tried to do some kind of psychedelic soul thing. Most of the better songs sounded like they were doing an impression of the Doors, really early Pink Floyd, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. This album feels like they had a lot of the building blocks, but didn’t really put them together in new, unique or interesting ways. 2⭐️

Oh look, another album from the 60's I don't like. 2/5

Sounds like an identify crisis. Mediocre rip off of every band and sound that was getting paid in the era. Not good, not bad, definitely not original.

kuulostaa halvalta.. halpahalli type biitti.. hyvällä mielellä mennään kuitenki perkule da capo maistuisi tähän väliin... lilliputti musiikkia valitettavasti. kakkipylly musiikkia harmillisesti. ford escort omistajat syö dacapon ylösalaisin että kaikki pikku suonet ja muhkurat lipoo kielenpäällystä.. huh hah hei ja rommia pullo. Da capo is an Italian musical term that means "from the beginning" SE ON TSUKUPÖTKÖ... SE ON SUOMALAINEN TSUKU........ taas vedetään suomen poikaa nenästä... tulette tätä katumaan monen monen monituisen vuoden päästä... revelation

Not really sure what this album is supposed to be.. I like variety but at various times it sounds like psych, experimental, jazz-rock, prog, pop. It feels a bit all over the place but I can see the merit, the last song is cool once they get past all the weird yelping

Ihme sekasotkua. Liikaa soittimia välillä soittamassa yhtä aikaa lujaa (volyymivaihteluilla pelataan), vaikka kyllä huilu ja klavikordi (vai mikä se on?) ilahduttavat. Kuinka paljon tässä on vitsiä? Toivottavasti paljon. Muuten olen erittäin huolissani.

This album is pretty obnoxious, and I don’t mean it in a good way, only reason it’s not a 1 is because there’s something there right at the beginning, something resembling actual decent music, but it just falls off so quickly you’re left disappointed

Didn't really enjoy this one.

Underwhelming psychedelic folk rock, I guess is what I’d call it. Honestly, it just isn’t special. It’s unremarkable. Meh.

what a weird album. it's all over the place, the drums are pretty cool though.

doch schon ein paar Tage alt, aber irgendwie kamen mir ein paar Songs etwas bekannt vor

This album came and went. Unimpressed the entire time

It’s not terrible. It’s just ok. Standout might be She Comes in Colors. There’s some Stones, Doors, Queen sound to the album, just couldn’t put it together like those bands.

2/5

It’s ok - wouldn’t be one I go back to listen to

I don’t know. There’s some fine bits I guess. But my patience for psychedelic music wears thin after a couple of minutes. 2.5/5

Don't love this.

The tunes with Spanish guitar were cool. Thought I heard Chewbacca at one point.

60's rock... ish... Not The Doors, not The Who, easily forgettable.